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Short paper: Collective bargaining - Employee Wages and Benefits
Overview: In task 5-1, students will participate in the second group discussion. The purpose of this topic is for students to have the opportunity to role-play an actual negotiation session with the goal of developing a collective bargaining agreement. The specific topic to be negotiated is related to employee wages and benefits. In this topic, the instructor will divide students into two groups. One group will represent management and the other group will represent labor. Note: The groups will be the opposite of what they were in Module Three to give students a chance to represent each side. The instructor has provided a rough framework of a collective bargaining agreement in the resources section for this module that provides some level of detail on how the agreement is currently worded. This will serve as the starting point for your negotiations. Students are expected to research the topic and determine the best way to craft the language in the agreement to favor their position. The students should use the Discussion Topic as a negotiating platform and create a dialogue with the opposing side in order to come to an agreement on the specific language required in the agreement.
SHORT PAPER : COLLECTIVE BARGAINING - EMPLOYEE WAGES AND BENEFITS
A personal account of the negotiating process. This account needs to include:
A listing of the key challenges or points of friction.
An analysis of the negotiating principles used by both parties and the BATNA of their own position.
A review on the success of interest-based compared to distributive bargaining principles.
An analysis of the strength of the other positions – were their positions weak and not supported well or just the opposite?
A reflection on how this negotiation session was different than the first one completed under Milestone One in Module Three.
What might need to be changed to be more successful in follow-on negotiating sessions?
A conclusion about the outcome – did it favor one side or the other?
A COPY OF THE AGREED-UPON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT SECTION:
The Employer agrees to an equitable distribution of overtime. Overtime will be assigned for accomplishment to those employees in an organizational unit where the overtime has become necessary and who would normally perform such work during a regular duty assignment. Overtime is the sole responsibility of the organization supervisor. The Employer will not be restrained from giving consideration to matters of health and differences in individual productivity where supervision is either restricted or absent, special skills, requirements and continuity of work.
-Overtime. Except where exempted from the overtime compensation requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act or other applicable law, employees shall receive one and one-half (1-1/2) times their regular rate of pay, as defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act, for time worked in excess of forty (40) hours in any one (1) week.
-Such employees must obtain authorization from their supervisor prior to working more than forty (40) hours in one (1) work week.
-The employer will provide advance notice to employees whom it will require to work overtime. To the extent practical, the employer will make efforts to rotate overtime among qualified employees.
B. The Employer agrees that unless it gives written notice, neither it nor any function will unilaterally take or permit action that will arbitrarily extend the normal workday without paying overtime or compensatory time, as applicable.
C. The Employer agrees to give first consideration to bargaining unit employees in the assignment of overtime before assigning such duties to non-unit employees. Such consideration will include health and safety factors, budget constraints, and employee qualifications.
D. Management are required to work alongside employees if work is not completed by the end of the 40 hour week. This plan will prevent the employer from paying overtime to employees.